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Israeli PM: Trump Peace Plan to Go Forth Even if Democrat Elected

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   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says even if a Democrat is
   elected president in November, Donald Trump's Mideast peace plan will
   still go forward.

   But Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post the only thing that can stop the
   plan is if he loses his own election on March 2.

   "Once the Trump plan is put forward, the goal posts will have been
   moved, and it will be very difficult for any administration to move
   them back," he said. "Any administration, Democratic or Republican,
   will have to work with the new realities. ... I'm sure the next
   administration, whatever it will be, will have to consider the fact
   that there's a new plan."

   But he said he is worried what would happen to Israel if opposition
   leader Benny Gantz and his centrist Blue and White Party wins the
   election and forms a new government, even if Gantz approved of Trump's
   plan when he met with the president at the White House last month

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